Kölsch (Colognian) is a very closely related small set of
dialects, or variants, of the
Ripuarian Central German group of languages. Kölsch is spoken in, and partially, around
Cologne, in the West of
Germany.It is actively spoken by about 250,000 people, that is roughly one quarter of the population. Almost all speakers are also fluent in
standard German. It is widely understood in a region inhabited by some 10 million people (a conservative estimate).There are local (increasingly divergent) variants of Kölsch in the Quarters, most notably those only recently incorporated into the city. Sometimes, also the far more than 100 clearly distinct Ripuarian languages of Belgium, Netherlands, and German Rhineland are incorrectly referred to as Kölsch, as well as the so called rheinisch tongue. In fact, the rheinisch regiolect has very little in common with Kölsch, being a variety of
standard German, to which it is so close that local speakers of lesser education usually cannot even tell the difference.
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